It appears that the judge known as Cherie Booth, aka Mrs Tony Blair, has some pretty dodgy ideas when it comes to sentencing religious people. To summarise, she gave a violent offender who happened to be a theist a suspended sentence because (as she said), “You are a religious man and you know this is not acceptable behaviour”. Does this mean she would give an atheist a prison sentence in the same circumstances on the grounds that non-believers have no guiding principles that tell them that smashing people in the face for no good reason is not the right thing to do? Being lenient on religious people seems the first step on a slippery slope which will result in people being treated differently by the law just because they have different beliefs. That would be terrible.